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widely on deafness and speech. He was a brother-in-law of Sir Christo- 

 pher Wren in whose education he had a considerable share, d. Hertford. 



Johnson, Maurice (1688-1755), b. Ayscoughfee Hall, Spalding. Ad- 

 mitted to the Inner Temple in 1705, he was called to the bar in 1710 but 

 lived chiefly at Spalding engaged in antiquarian pursuits. He founded 

 literary societies at Spalding (1709) and Stamford (1721), and the revival 

 of the Society of Antiquaries, London (1717) was largely due to his efforts. 

 He read numerous papers before the Society from 1721-1755 and was 

 Honorary Librarian for a time. 



Johnson, Thomas (1600-1644), b. Yorkshire. He spent part of his 

 youth in Lincolnshire, and returned to it to make botanical surveys. An 

 apothecary in London, he was also a botanist of note, his reputation 

 being made by ' a very much enlarged edition of Gerard's Herball ', and 

 Mercuriiis Botanicus. The latter with several lesser works comprised 

 what is regarded as the first British Flora, and were the first English 

 publications which described botanical journeys and listed the plants of 

 any one well defined area. 



JowETT, Thomas (1801-1831), b. Colwick. Though he died at an early 

 age, Jowett, who was trained to be a doctor, did much valuable botanical 

 work in the county. His Botanical Calendars gave localities for over a 

 thousand plants, some of which were not previously recorded, and his 

 herbarium, preserved in the Bromley House Library, Nottingham, con- 

 tains many plants no longer to be found in the county. His co-worker 

 Godfrey Howitt, a Nottingham doctor, who emigrated to AustraUa, 

 published, in 1839, Nottinghamshire Flora. 



Lee. Rev. William (d. 1610?), b. Calverton, Notts. Educated at 

 Cambridge, he had a charge at Calverton, where, in 1589, he invented 

 the stocking frame. He later moved to London with his invention but,^ 

 as he had little encouragement there, he was tempted across to France 

 by Henry IV where he thrived till the King's assassination, d. Paris. 



Lister, Martin, F.R.S. (1636-1712), b. Radcliffe, Bucks., of Yorkshire 

 parents. Educated privately and at St. John's College, Cambridge, Lister 

 had close associations with Lincolnshire and lived for some time at Bur- 

 well. He was appointed second Physician in ordinary to Queen Anne. 

 A competent zoologist, he did much pioneer work on Lincolnshire natural 

 history. His chief work was Historia sive synopsis methodica conchy- 

 liorum. 



Lowe, Edward J., F.R.S. (1825-1900). He lived at Highfield House, 

 Nottingham, now the residence of the Principal of University College. 

 He began to make meteorological observations at the age of 15 and at 21 

 he published A Treatise on Atmospheric Phenomena. He was also 

 interested in astronomy and conchology. and in connection with the 

 former he built Broadgate House, Beeston, for use as an observatory. 

 He was one of the founders of the Royal Meteorological Society. 



Middleton, Rev. Thos. F., F.R.S. (1769-1822), b. Kedleston, Derby- 

 shire. The son of the rector there he was educated at Christ's Hospital 

 and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Consecrated Bishop of Calcutta in 



